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German police arrested on Tuesday (17) three suspects in a major theft of jewelry and diamonds, including a 49-carat one, which took place in November 2019 at a museum in Dresden (eastern Germany).
The investigators also carried out several raids to try to recover the stolen objects, having moved to 18 buildings in Berlin, including ten apartments, as well as garages and vehicles, related to this case considered by the local press as “the largest art theft in the city. history. modern country.
“The actions carried out today are aimed at recovering the stolen artistic treasures and looking for evidence (…),” the Police and the Public Ministry said in a statement.
In total, 1,638 police officers were deployed for various operations in various regions of Germany, according to the statement.
The three detained persons, of German nationality, whose identities have not been disclosed, but who will be linked to the Remmo clan, a family of Arab origin linked to organized crime, “clearly suspects” of his participation in the robbery of the Grünes Gewölbe museum in Dresden (Green Abbey) on November 25, 2019.
Then that day, thieves invaded the museum of this ancient GDR city, at dawn, and in a few minutes managed to steal precious objects from the 18th century, which it included “hundreds” of diamonds, one of them 49 carats, and jewels.
The management of Grünes Gewölbe said at the time of the robbery that they were pieces of historical and cultural value “invaluable” and impossible to value.
Half a million reward
After the robbery, the police offered a reward of 500,000 euros for information that they could bring to the perpetrators.
According to the German daily Bild, several of the properties inspected in Berlin on Tuesday are linked to a family of Arab origin with notorious links to organized crime.
The call “Clan Remmo” He was involved in another major museum robbery in the heart of Berlin, in which 100 kilos of gold coins were stolen.
According to the police, in addition to the three arrested for the Dresden robbery, two other suspects from the Remmo family, Abdul Majed Remmo and Mohammed Remmo, both 21 years old, are being sought in the case.
Last year dozens of Remmo clan properties were seized, with an estimated value of 9.3 million euros (US $ 11 million), which had been acquired thanks to the profits obtained from various crimes, including the robbery of a bank in 2014.